Most audios are 6 to 12 discs long. Some much more. So far, my own personal record is the current listening marathon: World Without End by Ken Follett, which weighs in at 35 discs. John Lee the reader is so fabulous, that I just love listening. By the way, the previous winner was also Follett's Pillars of the Earth at a massive 33 discs.

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Atlas Shrugged is 50 hours. I have the mp3, so I don't know about number of discs.

I am wondering if the entire Harry Potter collection at over 100 hours counts - Although I didn't listen all at once, I'll bet there are Jim Dale fans who have!

One of my longest audio books is Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George which is just over 42 hours long. I've got it on my iPod so I don't know how many discs that is either. But yeah, it lasted me awhile!

katylit, do you get your books through itunes? I normally get them from the library on discs, load onto itunes, then put them on the ipod. I'm wondering if there's an easier way?

I read Dickens' Dombey & Son as a downloaded library book -- 37 (thirty-seven) parts via OverDrive - over 40 hours!

No vivienbrenda, I get my audiobooks through Audible. Then I can burn them onto CDs if I want to, but I shudder to think how many discs Mary Queen of Scotland would take! heh heh

I have a monthly subscription and get two books for around $22.00/month. Pretty good deal for me 'cause I listen to so many books.

Mine is Memoirs of a Geisha at approximately 23 hours from audible.

I get some from the library as well. I think the longest is The Constant Princess which has 16 discs.

Mine was John Adams 26 CDs 30+hrs. If it hadn't been so great, I don't think I would have made it through.

I listened to books 1-10 of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, plus the prequel, all in a row, which adds up to 307 hours and change. Took me the better part of a year. The longest individual title is Lord of Chaos, which was 40 hours and 20 minutes.

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I don't specifically remember how long each of these were, but my two longest listens were: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb.

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Mine is Voyager by Diana Gabaldon - 36 CD's, 43 hours - but so worth it!

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11 and 12 - I have listened to all of the Diana Gabaldon books and my friends have read them all. They say it doesn't count! I just laugh and tell them I didn't have to get carpal tunnel syndrome to read her books. :)
Goodness gracious, there are always more and more CDs.
Dragonfly in Amber had 33 discs for 39 1/4 hours.
Drums of Autumn has 39 discs for 46 hours.
The Fiery Cross has 47 discs for 56 hours.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes has 48 CDs (58 hours).
I don't know how many her new one will have!

Naxos sell an unabridged recording of War and Peace, which runs to 51 discs, and a 39 disc abridgement of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. I wonder how many discs an unabridged recording of that would run to!

#13 - I read somewhere that Diana Gabaldon said that the way An Echo in the Bone is shaping up, it will be around the same length as Dragonfly in Amber.

Pillars of the Earth took me over a month to listen to in the car. Don Quiote also took quite a while, however I listened to it on Playaway (self contained mp3 player from my public library) and often increased the playback speed.

#5 - I do both - I get CD's from the library but I invested in an Audible membership as well (I do 1 book a month at $14.95) but it's well worth it for the member-only specials that they run, that are less than the cost of my monthly subscription. I just got a few weeks ago 3 or 4 books for $5 each and this week they have a special on Harlan Coben's brand new book Long Lost for $9.95 - which I've been waiting for months to be released.

>14 Naxos sell an unabridged recording of War and Peace, which runs to 51 discs

Wow! Isn't it about time Naxos (and others) started sellings mp3s instead?!

Volume II of the Shelby Foote Civil War trilogy is 55 hours. All three volumes are 143 hours long. The narrator is excellent.

My current listen is my longest-15 hours-Just After SunsetStephen King'sstories. I was looking up
War and Peacethis morning and was amazed at how many discs it entails. You people are incredible. I don't know how I would handle thirty discs for a book.

My current listen is my longest-15 hours-Just After SunsetStephen King'sstories. I was looking up
War and Peacethis morning and was amazed at how many discs it entails. You people are incredible. I don't know how I would handle thirty discs for a book.

I tackled War and Peace by treating it like a very long extended battle campaign. I watched 2 of the movie versions, listened to a severely abridged BBC audio version, and then started reading. I also (gasp) checked out Sparknotes. So the characters were well understood. I was well trained/prepped and dove into the old Maude translation, complete with its character list bookmark. As the campaign wore on, I really enjoyed it, but started to falter.

I found a used audio copy of the last 1/4 or so, of the novel. I'll never forget spacing out for a moment on a country road, during the tail end of the second epilogue, and suddenly hearing "this concludes the reading of War and Peace". It was a great march.

Since then, I've frequently augmented my commuting audio books with reading the same title, during the evenings.

>22 ...complete with it's character list bookmark.

What a great idea! I'm going to make one for The Brothers Karamazov and try reading it again. Thank you.

>23,

Yeah, and those Random House folks thought of that - in 1942!

And every book doesn't come with one? Amazing